RAD Studio XE8 新增功能

INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS

• New in XE8! iOS 64 bit Object Pascal compiler and toolchain
• New in XE8! iOS 64 bit C++ compiler and toolchain
• New in XE8! Support for iOS Universal Apps (including both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries in an app bundle)

FMX APPLICATION PLATFORM (FIREMONKEY)

• New in XE8! FireUI Mobile Previews
• New in XE8! Multi-Device Preview
• New in XE8! Extended Multi Device Designer views styling, including universal styling and Windows styles customization
• New in XE8! FireUI Device Manager, to edit the specifications of the available devices and add more
• New in XE8! Memo platform controls for iOS
• New in XE8! ListView platform controls for iOS
• New in XE8! Calendar platform controls for iOS
• New in XE8! Switch platform controls for iOS
• New in XE8! MapView component for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) supporting platform specific interactive mapping libraries (respectively, by Apple and Google)
• New in XE8! WebBrowser component for Windows
• New in XE8! WebBrowser component for OS X
• New in XE8! Improved mixing of platform and styled components, with new platform styling options for iOS and controls Z-order improvements (with ControlType property for non-platform controls)
• New in XE8! ImageList component for FireMonkey
• New in XE8! Enhancements in FireMonkey multimedia support
• New in XE8! Support for higher resolutions in Camera components
• New in XE8! Android Lollipop specific style enabled by default (Android only)
• New in XE8! FireMonkey Applications Analytics Support*
  * Requires a specific contract and by-volume fee for storing run-time analytics data and accessing it
• New in XE8! App Tethering extensions and protocol enhancements
• New in XE8! Bluetooth framework improvements and new TBluetooth component for classic Bluetooth
• New in XE8! Proximity support based on the "beacons" technology (including the iBeacon and AltBeacon standards) for iOS, Android, and OS X

VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)

• New in XE8! VCL Font Scaling improvements
• New in XE8! VCL Applications Analytics Support*
  * Requires a specific contract and by-volume fee for storing run-time analytics data and accessing it
• New in XE8! VCL App Tethering extensions and protocol enhancements
• New in XE8! Bluetooth framework improvements and new TBluetooth component for classic Bluetooth

LANGUAGE AND RUNTIME LIBRARY FEATURES

• New in XE8! Simplified array initialization and construction for C++ Clang-based compilers
• New in XE8! iOS 64-bit API headers and RTL integration for Delphi and C++
• New in XE8! Box2D physics engine
• New in XE8! Object Pascal interfaces for the Box2D physics engine
• New in XE8! New System.Hash RTL unit, with hash functions to support the new HTTP framework
• New in XE8! New HTTP client framework, mapped to platforms libraries on all supported platforms
• New in XE8! New NetHTTPClient and NetHTTPRequest components, offering easy access to the HTTP client framework
• New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on Windows
• New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on OS X
• New in XE8! Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on mobile platforms (iOS and Android)

PERSONAL DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

• New in XE8! GetIt Package Manager for easy discovery, download and update of source code libraries, components, and other features from Embarcadero GetIt servers
• New in XE8! Configuration settings migration tool, to migrate configurations of older versions of the product to a newer version, or between different installations of the same version
• New in XE8! Start Here page improvements
• New in XE8! extra code refactoring, live syntax checking, metrics, and more integrated right into the IDE
• New in XE8! Project Manager enhancements, with the support for adding database files and simplifying their deployment
• New in XE8! Improved installation experience and reduced installation footprint
• New in XE8! Virtual form positioner for FireMonkey designer
• New in XE8! Project Statistics provides developers with a clear picture of team productivity with activity tracking.
• New in XE8! Clipboard History keeps a record of clipboard contents so developers can paste content previously copied.
• New in XE8! Multi-Paste Support performs the same paste operation on multiple source code lines at once.
• New in XE8! Modeless and Context-Sensitive Refactoring support which includes: renaming variables, classes, field and properties, inlining, introducing and splitting local variables, removing unused variables, eliminating with statements, extracting methods, adding parameters, and moving classes to a different unit (Object Pascal language only).
• New in XE8! Stack Bookmarks improves code navigation.
• New in XE8! Parenthesis Matching provides a visual queue to keep code clear.
• New in XE8! Flow Control Highlighting provides visual representation of flow jumps in code directly in the editor.
• New in XE8! Structural Highlighting
• New in XE8! Code Navigation Toolbar places classes and methods into a drop down box for easy in-code navigation (Object Pascal language only).
• New in XE8! Smart Keys and Smart Symbol Search (Object Pascal language only)
• New in XE8! Code Analysis tracks code quality with several code statistics like length parameters, nested statements, and cyclomatic complexity (Object Pascal language only).

SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT

• Enhanced in XE8! Version Insight – Integrated framework for supporting source code management tooling inside the IDE
• Enhanced in XE8! Subversion integration into the IDE, including change list labels, SVN merge dialog, branches switching and more
• Enhanced in XE8! Git version control integration into the IDE, now including authentication, Push and Pull changes to and from remote repositories
• Introduced in XE8! Mercurial version control integration into the IDE (supports cloning your remote repository, commit changes locally, show log data)

INTEGRATED UNIT TESTING

• New in XE8! Integrated unit testing with the DUnitX testing framework
• Updated in XE8! Unit test wizards for quick and easy unit test and unit test project creation

DATABASE

• New in XE8! Core DB.PAS TField optimizations

FIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY

• New in XE8! FireDAC Teradata database support, based on the Teradata database ODBC driver
• New in XE8! FireDAC support for XE7 Change Views
• New in XE8! FireDAC support for change notifications
• New in XE8! Improved FireDAC updates management
• New in XE8! Tools and scripts to help migration of dbExpress code to FireDAC
• Updated in XE8! iOS and Android mobile database support, including SQLite, InterBase ToGo and IBLite
• Updated in XE8! Comprehensive support for SQLite v3.+ database, including "smart" data type recognition, supporting both dynamic and static linking

ENTERPRISE MOBILITY SERVICES

• New in XE8! FireDAC / EMS integration improvements, specifically focused on updates management
• New in XE8! EMS Push Notifications server support for iOS and Android
• New in XE8! EMS external credentials support
• New in XE8! Extended EMS Administrative API, now with EMS Installation and EMS Push Resources
• New in XE8! Database Connection Pooling and other EMS optimizations
• New in XE8! New EMSClientAPI component to simplify EMS client side development
• Enhanced in XE8! User, groups, sessions, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface using the EMS Console
• New in XE8! Ability to export data from EMS Console to .CSV files
• New in XE8! Improved analytics for users and groups
• New in XE8! EMS client application to manage user accounts

DATASNAP CONNECTORS

• Enhanced in XE8! DataSnap mobile connectors for ObjectiveC, supporting iOS 7 and iOS 8 SDKs

INCLUDED DATABASES

• Enhanced in XE8! InterBase XE7 Developer Edition – up to 20 users and 80 logical connections

LICENSING AND TOOL MANAGEABILITY

• Enhanced in XE8! Earlier version licenses included in network licenses (Delphi 2007- XE7, C++ Builder 2007-XE5, HTML5 Builder XE3, RadPHP XE2). Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6 available separately

Multi-Device Designer

• RAD Studio XE7 delivers the only true single source solution for natively compiled applications on Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android.
• A revolutionary new way to build a single user interface based on visual form designer that scales and adjust to different types of devices, form factors, and operating systems
• Develop your UI once and then view and adjust or customize it for each device type (mobile, tablet and desktop; iOS, Android, Windows and OS X)
• Make changes on the main user interface that are propagated to other device specific user interfaces; fine tune a device specific form factor without affecting the other views
• Customize layouts and styles for each device as desired or easily utilize the inherited style
• Predefined views including size and layout standards are included for many popular mobile device, tablet and desktop form factors. You can also add your own.
• Only one "form class" is required across all of the form factors allowing the developer to create a single source file managing all of the common user interface events in one shared source file.

FireMonkey Behavior service

• A new service API that allows the framework and developer to query information about the device the app is running on to dynamically adjust itself for the form factor and platform
• UI element locations are automatically adjusted for each type of target device (for example, the position of tabs on different mobile platforms)

MultiView component

• The MultiView component is brand new unique FireMonkey component that utilizes the behavior services to dynamically displays itself depending on the form factor and desired platform behavior.
• The multi-view lays outs menus appropriately for a phone as a drawer and for a tablet as popup or docked menu

Enterprise Mobility Services

• Enterprise Mobility Services is a turnkey REST based MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access, and SQL Database access and deployment, serving mobile, desktop and web application clients
• Data management across tiers through middleware that is stateless, restful, and scalable
• Create custom APIs for your business functionality
• High-performance enterprise database access for Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server Informix, SQL Server, and many more from a mobile application through the middleware
• Custom Mobile API management with REST/JSON through loadable modules
• Data access components for multi-tier data access through standard REST/JSON
• User, session, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface
• Secure Data Storage Service on both servers and mobile devices
• Rapidly connect your apps to your enterprise APIs and databases and services on-premises or in a private cloud
• Flexible deployment license options. Purchase deployment licenses based on the numbers of users that access the Enterprise Mobility Services

App Connectivity with App Tethering, REST and Bluetooth

• With App Tethering, RAD Studio makes it extremely easy for apps to broadcast and find other apps to tether with over local WiFi or Bluetooth
• Extend existing VCL Windows apps with mobile companion apps or Bluetooth devices by simply adding a few components to each app
• Connect with Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE enabled gadgets like healthcare sensors and wearables to build unique and domain specific solutions
• Easily connect to REST APIs on any near field device to interact with that gadget
• Specific Bluetooth LE component to connect with power sipping micro gadgets

Parallel Computing Library

• The Parallel Computing library helps you exponentially increases performance making it easier to write multi-threaded applications that take advantage of multi-core CPUs
• Boost the performance of your existing VCL and FireMonkey applications, with a self-tuning thread pool
• Include the new System.Threading unit in your apps and you can do the following:
  • Parallel 'for' loops
  • Scheduling of tasks
  • Futures
  • Joining of multiple tasks and waiting for all to complete
• Easy integration for a significant performance boost

IDE and Development Tools Enhancements

• The new PAServer Manager is an OS X tray app that allows you to start and manage multiple instances of PAServer (the Platform Assistant app for developing iOS and OS X apps)
• Improved Subversion version control support with new Git version control support
• New integrated multi-device designer
• IDE support for adding Java classes to an Android apk
• IDE Guided Tours to help learn about RAD Studio features
• New Java2Delphi native bridge file generator for Android

RTL and VCL Enhancements

• New OmniXML library for faster performance, particularly on mobile platforms and easier selection of default XML engine
• Improved JSON low level processing
• Updated C++ STL library for iOS and new versions of Boost and Dinkumware Libraries for Win64
• Enhancements to the taskbar component introduced in XE6 to support with a new TJumpLists VCL component for Windows Taskbar Jump Lists
• New unit for Web encoding and decoding
• Hundreds of quality and performance improvements

Object Pascal Language Enhancements

• Improved initialization for dynamic arrays
• Mix and match constant and dynamic arrays
• String-like operations on dynamic arrays including + operator concatenation, Insert and Delete
• An array constructor can be used to specify an initial value of a global dynamic array variable
• Also, generics containers optimizations

Database and FireDAC Enhancements

• IBLite embeddable database now available for Windows, OS X, Android and iOS
• FireDAC streaming support for blob fields and support for MSSQL file streams
• Support for DBMS API command native timeouts
• FireDAC connection parameters are now displayed in the Object Inspector as a record
• Data Explorer enhancements (primary keys and fields are displayed, foreign keys and fields are displayed, sequences/generators are now displayed)
• Other FireDAC enhancements including a new IBLite driver for desktop and mobile

FireMonkey Enhancements

• TEdit and TCalendar controls haves been rewritten to utilize a new presentation architecture: you choose whether you want the control to use the standard styled presentation or a platform native control presentation on iOS dynamically
• Multi monitor support on desktop platforms
• The TBannerAd component now supports the Google Mobile Ads API from Google Play Services
• Immersive full screen mode on Android KitKat
• TListView pull to refresh on iOS and Android

NEW! in RAD Studio XE6

• Application Tethering Components FM VCL
• Taskbar component VCL
• Cloud Service (BaaS) integration with components for Kinvey and Parse FM VCLVCL/li>
• New VCL Styles VCL
• VCL sensor components VCL
• In-app purchase and in-app advertising FM
• Create apps for Google Glass FM
• Accessibility for FireMonkey desktop FM
• Improvements in quality, performance and stability FM VCL
• Build Android apps with C++ FM
• C++ Package Support for 64-bit Windows FM VCL
• Find definition and find references for C++ FM VCL
• FireDAC enhancements and Informix driver updates FM VCL
• Database Explorer for FireDAC FM VCL
• Apache support (WebBroker)
• DirectX 11 support FM VCL

NEW! in RAD Studio XE5

• Develop Android apps with Delphi and iOS apps with C++ FM
• New mobile components for Android and iOS FM
• REST Client support to access cloud based RESTful web services (in Professional edition and higher) FM VCL
• FireDAC integrated into the Delphi install and core components included in Professional edition FM VCL
• IBLite database for Android with unlimited deployment license FM
• Develop iOS 7 apps FM
• Fixes and enhancements FM VCL

NEW! in RAD Studio XE4

• Develop iOS apps with Delphi iOS ARM compiler, toolchain, new visual development environment and controls for iOS FM
• IBLite database for iOS with unlimited deployment license FM
• FireDAC – Powerful, fast and easy data access FM VCL
• FireMonkey sensors support for location, orientation and motion FM
• FireMonkey Frames and new TListView component FM
• OS X full screen mode FM
• Fixes and enhancements FM VCL

NEW! in RAD Studio XE3

• C++Builder 64-bit Windows compiler FM VCL
• Windows 8 support FM VCL
• Incorporate the Windows modern look into your applications with Metropolis UI FM VCL
• OS X Mountain Lion and Retina Display support FM
• Visual LiveBindings FM VCL
• Enhanced FireMonkey styles, audio/video and 3D FM
• Fixes and enhancements FM VCL
• HTML5 Builder for creating web and mobile web apps

NEW! in RAD Studio XE2

• 64-bit Delphi compiler for Windows FM VCL
• FireMonkey application platform - create multi-platform, multi-device applications from one codebase FM
• Create Windows and OS X desktop applications with FireMonkey FM
• DataSnap mobile connectors FM VCL
• LiveBindings engine FM VCL
• FastReport reporting tool FM VCL

NEW! in RAD Studio XE

• Expanded multi-tier development with DataSnap FM VCL
• Additional bundled tools (CodeSite Express, IP*Works, Beyond Compare Differ) VCL
• Cloud computing support for Azure and Amazon FM VCL
• Subversion integration in the IDE FM VCL
• Regular expressions FM VCL

NEW! in RAD Studio 2009 and RAD Studio 2010

• Build touch and gesture enabled applications FM VCL
• Windows 7 support FM VCL
• IDE Insight FM VCL
• Extended RTTI (reflection) added to the Delphi language FM VCL
• Unicode FM VCL
• Ribbon Controls VCL
• Major DataSnap upgrade FM VCL
• Generics and anonymous methods FM VCL